Practice teams delivering COVID-19 jabs face torrent of abuse
Three quarters of primary care staff have faced verbal abuse linked to the COVID-19 vaccination programme and more than half have experienced threats of physical assault or had their premises defaced or damaged, a poll suggests.
Source: GP Online News - June 29, 2021 Category: Primary Care Tags: Wellbeing for GPs Source Type: news

Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons
Every year, a torrent of cash and other compensation flows to these surgeons from manufacturers of hardware for spinal implants, artificial knees, and hip joints, an analysis of government data shows.Kaiser Health News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Orthopaedics News Source Type: news

My Home Country Has an Excellent Vaccination Track Record. What It Doesn ’t Have Is Vaccines
Every morning I sit at the breakfast table with my mother. She moved to New York about five years ago and having had her so close to me makes New York feel even more like home. Our morning meal, whipped up by my mom, is served up alongside a cup of Nepali chiya—a traditional black tea with milk, boiled with cardamom, cinnamon, and cloves. As we sit across the table sipping chiya from our hand-carved Nepali copper teacups, we catch up on life and current events, and share lighthearted laughter. For years, it’s been an uplifting start to my day. Unfortunately, our recent breakfasts have been much more somber. Ove...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Prabal Gurung Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Developing Countries Desperately Need COVID-19 Financing
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 2021 (IPS) Failure to sufficiently accelerate comprehensive efforts to contain COVID-19 contagion has greatly worsened the catastrophe in developing countries. Grossly inadequate financing of relief, recovery and reform efforts has also further set back progress, including sustainable development. Anis ChowdhuryUncertain and unequal recovery After over a year, “Poor countries are facing severe setbacks on their development paths, encumbered by ballooning debts, high risks of default and limited ability to inject desperately needed liquidity”, obs...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Aid Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Sustainability TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news

Eli Lilly buckles under pressure, offers voluntary licence to Natco Pharma
Lily has issued voluntary licenses for Barcitinib to six Indian drug makers besides Natco, these include- Sun Pharma, Cipla, Dr Reddy's, Lupin, Torrent Pharma and MSN Labs. Barcitinib, in combination with Remdesivir, received emergency approval last year from the USFDA for treatment of hospitalized Covid19 patients who are not on ventilator.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - May 17, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Eli Lilly inks pacts for COVID-19 drug Baricitinib with Torrent Pharma, Dr Reddy's, MSN Labs
​​ The company has issued additional royalty-free, non-exclusive voluntary licences to Dr Reddy's, MSN Laboratories and Torrent Pharmaceuticals, who will be collaborating with Lilly to accelerate and expand the availability of Baricitinib in India, Eli Lilly and Company said in a statement.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - May 13, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

B.C. man jailed again for refusing to remove revenge website targeting ex-wife
A Burnaby, B.C., man convicted of harassing his ex-wife with a vulgar website and a torrent of threatening emails is heading back to...
Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Diabetes type 2 symptoms: How to tell your foot ulcer is a sign of diabetes - key features
DIABETES type 2 can unleash a torrent of destruction on the body if blood sugar levels are consistently too high. Diabetic ulcers on the feet are a telltale sign of high blood sugar levels. But what makes these foot ulcers distinctive?
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Vaccine Trickle Becomes Torrent as U.S. Eligibility Rules Widen
Source: Reuters: Health - April 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Israel ’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout Is Slowing at a Critical Moment. That’s a Warning for the Rest of Us
Now that nearly 60% of Israel’s roughly 9 million residents have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, the New Jersey-sized Middle Eastern country is offering the rest of the world an enviable glimpse of a future where most people are inoculated against the coronavirus. While it’s still too early to tell the full extent to which vaccination is having an effect there, Israel’s rate of virus-related deaths has dropped faster than global figures since it started vaccinating (see chart below and methodology at bottom). Meanwhile, the latest real-world evidence collected in Israel suggests the Pfizer...
Source: TIME: Health - March 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Sun Pharmaceutical, Dr Reddy's Labs, JB Pharmaceuticals, Torrent Pharma and Piramal Pharma eye Oaknet Healthcare
Investment bank Rothschild is advising the fund to find a potential buyer for the business at a valuation of $100 million (about Rs 700 crore), said multiple people aware of the development.
Source: The Economic Times - March 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dispositional optimism and disaster resilience: a natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami - Gero K, Aida J, Shirai K, Kondo K, Kawachi I.
OBJECTIVE: Dispositional optimism - the general belief that good things will happen - is considered a key asset for the preservation of mental health after a traumatic life event. However, it has been hypothesized that in extreme situations such as major d...
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Texas Gov. Abbott faces backlash after lifting coronavirus restrictions
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is facing a torrent of criticism over his surprise decision to roll back his state's mask mandate and business...
Source: Reuters: Health - March 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Rachel Lindsay Off Instagram After Bachelor Nation Hate
Rachel Lindsay has disabled her Instagram account because of what's described as a torrent of hate by members of 'Bachelor' Nation.
Source: Reuters: Health - February 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

COVID-19 Is Ravaging Local Newspapers, Making it Easier for Misinformation to Spread
Keeping up with the torrent of news over the last year has been overwhelming for all Americans. But it’s an especially difficult challenge for local newspaper editors like Reed Anfinson, who not only owns and publishes Swift County, Minn.’s Monitor-News, but writes nearly every news story it publishes, too. Anfinson, who also owns two other papers in nearby counties, has worked virtually seven days a week since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, including through a battle with the virus himself. For all his hustle, he still wishes he had time to write more about the people whose lives have been disrupted by CO...
Source: TIME: Health - January 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

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